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Should Anwar be discredited , the government may feel more confident of holding on to power in elections that must be held by 2013.
They have left the party discredited in the public mind by its experience in government and disqualified, unless wounds heal, from reclaiming its pre-2010 role as a party of oppositional protest.
For your local taxpayer-subsidised theatre, low-tech high-return junk such as standup comedy, discredited TV psychics and Abba tribute acts float more worthwhile artists with identifiable skills – dancers, actors, puppeteers and ex-members of the Stranglers doing acoustic tours.
Long after phrenology was widely discredited , Aboriginal skulls were still sought and displayed with the same benign sentiment that one might attach to animal remains.
She is expected again to highlight problems with the tax credit system, adding to concerns that the system will become discredited without further reforms.
Consider, too, the recent record of the party which laughably still calls itself Conservative: David Cameron and George Osborne's claims that there is a "global race" which can somehow be definitively either won or lost, their blithe return to fiscal dogma that was discredited in the 1930s – and, come to think of it, the dire decline of public libraries that has happened on their watch.
Scholars have long discredited the myth that Elizabeth spent her life encased in lead-white makeup, and, contra Dobson, she survived smallpox without marks.
Many of the complaints contain heart-rending accounts of family and friends of the victims, and express exceptionally strong views about MacKenzie, whose newspaper published an article four days after the disaster headlined "The Truth" making a series of allegations about fans' conduct on the day, which have been utterly discredited.
But the Stand Up to Ukip group claims the insider went even further than just trying to infiltrate their activities and tried to encourage the campaigners to behave badly and abuse Farage, which could potentially have discredited them.
Only after the allegations were publicly discredited by an independent panel report in 2012 did MacKenzie offer "profuse apologies" for the story, saying he had been misled by official sources.
Yeltsin and to a lesser extent Kravchuk were since severely discredited by their terms in office, but Shushkevich denies that there were any ulterior motives in their December 1991 act of dissolution.
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The term "discredited " functions primarily as a past participle or adjective , modifying nouns to indicate a loss of credibility or authority. Ludwig AI confirms its proper usage, as demonstrated in numerous examples across diverse sources.
Expression frequency: Very common
